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...Cohan and Harris reunite after a long separation to present "Fulton of Oak Falls" and to add another piece to the former's gallery of middle-aged portraits. They give us Mr. Cohan "in his own way of telling the story of Parker Fennelly's" work of the same name, and the product indicates that Mr. Cohan is thoroughly the major contributor...
...joke by Chicago Lumberman-Banker George William Dulany Jr., the Society has accumulated 30,000 members whose names include George, has cost its founder $6,000. Fellow-officers of Georgia's George are Vice President George Arliss, Poet Laureate George Ade, Lyricist George M. Cohan, Steward King George II of Greece, Sergeant at Arms George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, Patron Saints George Washington & George Dewey...
...know who the greatest figure on the contemporary American stage is? Well, it's George M. Cohan. That man is a genius. I've seen him come into a rehearsal with one act of a play written, and he'd write out the other two acts sitting in the darkened orchestra. Sometimes he'd have three or four shows going on at the same time-- let's say, one musical comedy, one straight drama, a comedy, and on top of that, a revue. Remember, all the writing, song-writing, and direction by him, and he might even take an acting...
...Lewis received five full minutes of bravos, five huge baskets of roses and chrysanthemums, five close-up flashlight shots, all accepted breathlessly and with apparent surprise. Loudest applause, no matter what she sang, came from Mary Hague's own guests, among them Husband Hague, Jimmy Durante, George M. Cohan and James J. Walker who, when he was New York's mayor, married Mary Lewis to Basso Bohnen...
Democrats: Virginia C. Gildersleeve, Mary Woolley, Will Durant, Robert Taylor, George Raft, George Jessel, George Gershwin, George M. Cohan, Lee Shubert, Eddy Duchin, W. C. Fields, Beatrice Lillie, Joe E. Brown...